Cinema: Musicomedies of the Week

In the current revival of
cinemas with music, Warner Brothers, who claim that they started the
cycle with 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933, favor backstage
romances, staged with super-Ziegfeldian extravagance. Samuel Goldwyn
surrounds Eddie Cantor with girls and animals. Universal, sceptical
of the new vogue, was last week completing a cheap ($100,000)
cinemusicomedy, partly financed by two Manhattan shoestring producers and
produced at Paramount's Long Island lot, which has been disused for two
years.

Trend toward cinemas with music was indicated by two which
opened last week: